Wednesday, January 4, 2012

As promised, TSA is moving forward with the TSA Pre✓™ pilot, and what better way to kick off 2012 than with the addition of two more airports – Salt Lake City (SLC) and John F. Kennedy (JFK) – to the program.

There are a lot of moving pieces, so here’s a quick look at next steps for the pilot in the coming months:

Early 2012

United Airlines and US Airways will begin offering the program to their eligible frequent flyers

Minneapolis and SLC will offer the program to pilot participants traveling on Delta

Los Angeles and JFK will also come on board for participants traveling on American

Stay tuned! US Airways and United recently began notifying their eligible frequent fliers, and TSA will announce more details on start dates and locations at new airports as soon as we have them. TSA also plans to build on the pilot’s initial success and continue expanding the program to additional airlines and airports once they are operationally ready.

We’ve received positive feedback from the overwhelming majority of the nearly 200,000 passengers who have been screened through TSA Pre✓™ since the pilot rolled out. TSA continues to gather encouraging feedback from those who have experienced the program at the participating airports [Atlanta (ATL), Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), Detroit (DTW), Miami (MIA) and Las Vegas’ McCarran (LAS) airports].

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Everyone should be able to go through the checkpoint without removing shoes, liquids or laptops. Everyone should use only metal detectors as primary screening. Stop presuming guilt until proven a US-national frequent flier.

At LAS, a passenger in the P-check lane forgot a bottle of water in his bag. He was written up and the TSO told him that TSA has to report all infractions by Pre-check passengers and that he may be kicked out of the program as a result. Seems a bit harsh.

Amazing.... I have held a top secret security clearance in the past, I am a former military officer, and I am currently in an FBI anti-terrorism organization. I have recently had two full FBI background checks.

But the TSA does not recognize any of that, because they don't have to. When is TSA going to learn that there are plenty of people who want to help with security?

Instead, TSA just works to upset as many people as possible. And they do it from a position of complete ignorance and poor training.

I am eligible because I am a member of Global Entry. I find it odd that I can only use the pre-check lane when I am traveling domestically. In other words, the CDP trusts me when I enter the USA, but the TSA does not trust me when I leave. Seems backwards.

That is in fact what the TSA is made up of...All you have to do is check the career experience of most TSA employees. The bottom line is "reasonable" is best determined by the expert collective, plus experience and trends. Both kids and the elderly have been used in different situations (with and without their consent) to carry out the senseless deeds of others. Why wait until it happens here to "whine" about it? The alternative - getting slammed into a building at 500mph - is less desirable and reasonably so!